| BLOWBACK | • blowback n. (Firearms) A type of action where the pressure from the fired cartridge blows a sliding mechanism backward… • blowback n. An unintended adverse result, especially of covert political action. • blowback n. (Slang) The act of shotgunning (inhaling from a pipe etc. and exhaling into another smoker’s mouth). |
| BLOWBACKS | • blowbacks n. Plural of blowback. • BLOWBACK n. an escape of gases. |
| CLAWBACK | • clawback n. (US law of evidence) A rule that permits a party to take back evidentiary materials that were mistakenly… • clawback n. (US taxation law) Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision but is taken by another… • clawback n. (US, business) Any recovery of a performance-related payment based on discovery that the performance was not genuine. |
| CLAWBACKS | • clawbacks n. Plural of clawback. • CLAWBACK n. taking by taxation what has been given as benefit. |
| DRAWBACK | • drawback n. A disadvantage; something that detracts or takes away. • drawback n. A partial refund of an import fee, as when goods are re-exported from the country that collected the fee. • drawback n. The inhalation of a lungful of smoke from a cigarette. |
| DRAWBACKS | • drawbacks n. Plural of drawback. • DRAWBACK n. a hinderance. |
| PLOWBACK | • plow␣back v. To reinvest profits into a business. • PLOWBACK n. a reinvestment of profits in a business, also PLOUGHBACK. |
| PLOWBACKS | • PLOWBACK n. a reinvestment of profits in a business, also PLOUGHBACK. |
| SKEWBACK | • skewback n. (Architecture) The side of an arch; the course of masonry on the top of an abutment with a slope for… • SKEWBACK n. a sloping surface against which the end of an arch rests. |
| SKEWBACKED | • SKEWBACKED adj. having a skewback, the part or inclined surface on which a segmented arch abuts. |
| SKEWBACKS | • skewbacks n. Plural of skewback. • SKEWBACK n. a sloping surface against which the end of an arch rests. |
| SLOWBACK | • slowback n. (Archaic, slang) A lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer. • SLOWBACK n. (obsolete) a lazy person. |
| SLOWBACKS | • slowbacks n. Plural of slowback. • SLOWBACK n. (obsolete) a lazy person. |
| SOWBACK | • sowback n. A low ridge of sand. • SOWBACK n. an eroded, steeply tilted ridge of resistant rocks with equal slopes on the sides, also HOGBACK. |
| SOWBACKS | • sowbacks n. Plural of sowback. • SOWBACK n. an eroded, steeply tilted ridge of resistant rocks with equal slopes on the sides, also HOGBACK. |
| THROWBACK | • throwback n. A reversion to an earlier stage of development. • throwback n. (Derogatory) A person considered to be primitive, uncivilized and mentally deficient. • throwback n. An organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form. |
| THROWBACKS | • throwbacks n. Plural of throwback. • THROWBACK n. a reversion (e.g. to an earlier developmental type). |
| YELLOWBACK | • yellowback n. A cheap sensational novel. • yellow-back n. Alternative form of yellowback. • yellow␣back n. (Informal) A coward. |
| YELLOWBACKS | • yellowbacks n. Plural of yellowback. • yellow-backs n. Plural of yellow-back. • yellow␣backs n. Plural of yellow back. |